Posted on 07/20/2012 1:02:24 AM PDT by Freelance Warrior
A technical department in a Soviet university. An introductory lecture.
The professor:
For a start I'll explain to you, who an engineer is. There is a factory which receives daily a truckload of alcohol necessary for its operating. The factory has a huge tank with a tap to hold the alcohol. A female employee uses the tap to distribute the alcohol according to written orders. After each shift the tank is emptied with the same tap.
Now I have a question to you all:
How will an engineer steel some alcohol from the tank?"
Russia has no one who would steal alcohol.
Bribe the female employee and blame some local Uzbeks.
1.The employee is financially responsible.
2. This is not an engineerial solution.
Do you mean steal?
The engineer would place the glass of alcohol near somebody and then go tell the supervisor that the person near the glass stole the alcohol.
When the person, who is accused of stealing it, is dragged off, the engineer would then pick up the glass and carry on.
That’s how they did it in the old Soviet Union.
From the top of the open tank with a glass, cup, straw, whatever. :-)
Yes, sorry.
Write a requisition? ( Something like that, I’ll bet. )
Torchit
1. The tank is huge
2. Stealing must be done secretly.
But using the top is a part of the solution!
This is not an engineerial solution either.
Yes, sorry.
Like acid and oil on a madman's face His reason tends to fly away
Is there a vent on the tank?
It’s an engineering solution, if the engineer came up with it. :)
I thought you said this was from Soviet Russia.
In Soviet Russia, tanker steal you.
Probably. Anyway, there's an opporunity to access the tank's filling opening and/or the vent before/after shifts. But not the tap.
I know one way it could be done. It would depend on the volume of the truck, but you could either pump air into the truck to displace volume of the stolen booze or by lowering the pressure within the tank, it would allow the alcohol to expand.
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